Speech #990013209

We also think that there are countries which are obviously the founts of international terrorism and illegal drug trafficking throughout the world and it is high time that we stopped using the International Monetary Fund to provide money which will ultimately then result in propping up a government that is providing illegal drugs to the world or is providing stability for international terrorists. The bill would also strengthen the JacksonVanik amendment. JacksonVanik is a provision of law that now exists that controls the importation policies or immigration policies of countries and it is designed in a way to assure that trade credits and mostfavorednation status is not granted to countries that are preventing people from emigrating out of those countries. oppressed people. to this country. What we do is we strengthen JacksonVanik by saying that before you can waive those provisions. for instance before you can grant mostfavorednation status to some country that has oppressive emigration polices. that you would have to get a twothirds majority of both Houses of Congress to approve such a waiver. That way we would assure that the President could not just willynilly grant waivers which. in fact. then allow countries around the world that are not permitting emigration to benefit from trade with this Nation. We would also extend the JacksonVanik provisions to some extent to relate to a nations policy where they systematically are denying free press access to that country. You know. it is interesting that some of our concerns of human rights in this country as they relate to our political structure come about because there is free press access in many of the nations who are our allies or at least limited free press access.